KMJ (580
kHz
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) is a
commercial
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* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
AM radio station
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in
Fresno, California
Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, makin ...
. It airs a
news/talk
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radio format
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, and
simulcast
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s with
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
KMJ-FM
KMJ-FM (105.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Fresno, California. The station, owned by Cumulus Media, airs a news/talk radio format, simulcast with sister station AM 580 KMJ. The studios and offices are located at the Radio City build ...
. Owned by
Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Audacy and iHeartMedia. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 ...
, the
studio
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s and offices are located at the Radio City building on Shaw Avenue in North Fresno.
The
transmitter
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site is in
Orange Cove, California
Orange Cove is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was at the 2010 census, up from at the 2000 census.
Description
Almost all of Orange Cove's residents are Hispanic, many of them farmers. Orange Cove is locate ...
, on East American Avenue at Cove Road. While
AM 580 The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 580 kHz: 580 AM is classified as a regional broadcast frequency by the Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the U ...
is a
Regional
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broadcast frequency, the station is powered at 50,000
watt
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s, the highest power for an AM station permitted by the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC). To protect other stations on AM 580, KMJ uses a four-
tower array
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directional antenna
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. The signal covers most of
Central California
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and reaches into the
Bay Area
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,
Sacramento
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and
Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's populat ...
. KMJ is Central California's primary entry point station in the
Emergency Alert System
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite, or broadcast television, and both ...
.
Programming
KMJ-AM-FM focus primarily on locally produced talk programming and news on weekdays. Mornings begin with an agricultural news hour, followed by "Fresno's Morning News", a three-hour block of news, sports, traffic and weather. Middays and afternoons feature local talk hosts. Several
nationally syndicated programs are carried at night, including
Mark Levin
Mark Reed Levin (; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and radio personality. He is the host of syndicated radio show '' The Mark Levin Show'', as well as '' Life, Liberty & Levin'' on Fox News. Levin worked in the admin ...
, ''
Armstrong & Getty
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'', ''
Red Eye Radio
''Red Eye Radio'' is a talk radio program currently hosted by Eric Harley and Gary McNamara. The program is syndicated nationwide by Westwood One, and originates from WBAP in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The show traces its history throug ...
'' and ''
America in The Morning'' from
Westwood One
Westwood One is an American radio network
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, a
subsidiary
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of Cumulus Media, the parent company of KMJ-AM-FM.
Weekends feature shows on money, health, real estate, auto repair and dining. Some shows are paid
brokered programming
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. Weekend hosts include
Chris Plante
Chris Plante (born December 12, 1959) is a syndicated radio talk show host, based at WMAL Radio in Washington D.C., and heard on the Westwood One Network. He is also a frequent guest on both Fox News and Fox Business.
Chris Plante is the s ...
, Chad Benson and
Ric Edelman
Fredric Mark "Ric" Edelman is an American investor and author. He is the founder of Edelman Financial Services (later, Edelman Financial Engines), the author of several personal finance books, and the host of a weekly personal finance talk radi ...
. Local newscasters are heard at the beginning of most hours, with
ABC News Radio
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carried at night.
History
Early years
KMJ is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States. On December 1, 1921, the U.S. Department of Commerce, in charge of radio at the time, adopted a regulation formally establishing a broadcasting station category, which set aside the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) for entertainment broadcasts, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for market and weather reports. On March 23, 1922, the
San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation
The San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation was a utility company that provided electricity to seven counties in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The company is one of several utilities acquired by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company durin ...
was issued a license with the randomly assigned call letters KMJ, for a new Fresno station operating on the 360 meter "entertainment" wavelength. A few months later the station was also authorized to broadcast weather reports on 485 meters. The lack of available broadcasting frequencies meant that many localities had to allocate time slots between multiple timesharing stations. However, because there were no other area stations, KMJ had unrestricted hours. (Until 1936, and the arrival of KARM, KMJ was the only radio station in Fresno.) KMJ remains one of only a few dozen stations to keep its original
three-letter call sign from its founding.
In late 1923, KMJ was reassigned to 1100 kHz, which was changed to 1210 in early 1924, to 1280 kHz a year later, and to 820 kHz in mid-1927. On November 11, 1928, as part of the implementation of a major nationwide reallocation under the provisions of the
Federal Radio Commission
The Federal Radio Commission (FRC) was a government agency that regulated United States radio communication from its creation in 1927 until 1934, when it was succeeded by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FRC was established by t ...
's
General Order 40
The Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) General Order 40, dated August 30, 1928, described the standards for a sweeping reorganization of radio broadcasting in the United States. This order grouped the AM radio band transmitting frequencies into thre ...
, KMJ was reassigned to a "local" frequency, 1200 kHz. The next year this was changed to another "local" frequency, 1210 kHz.
In 1925 ownership was changed to ''
The Fresno Bee
''The Fresno Bee'' is a daily newspaper serving Fresno, California, and surrounding counties in that U.S. state's central San Joaquin Valley. It is owned by The McClatchy Company and ranks fourth in circulation among the company's newspapers. I ...
'', which was part of the
McClatchy Newspaper Company chain of newspapers.
Signal upgrade
McClatchy was intent on improving KMJ's coverage, and competed with KTAB in
Oakland
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...
(now
KSFO
KSFO (560 AM) is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a talk radio format. The station's studios and offices are on Battery Street in the SoMa district of San Francisco, along with f ...
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
) for reassignment to 580 kHz, a "regional" frequency, which was being made available by the Federal Radio Commission. Eventually, KMJ was awarded the new channel, and the station moved to 580 kHz, effective July 22, 1932, with a power increase from 100 to 500 watts, with unlimited time. Later, power was boosted to 1,000 watts, using a
non-directional antenna
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from a building rooftop in Downtown Fresno.
Network affiliation
![McClatchy Broadcasting Company advertisement (1936)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/McClatchy_Broadcasting_Company_advertisement_%281936%29.jpg)
The station was an
affiliate of the
Don Lee Network
The Don Lee Network, sometimes called the Don Lee Broadcasting System was an American regional network of radio stations in the old-time radio era.
Origin
Don Lee made a fortune as the exclusive West Coast distributor of Cadillac automobiles. He ...
, and also carried
CBS Radio Network
CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network, is a radio network that provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by Paramount Global. It ...
broadcasts until 1936, when KMJ switched its affiliation to the
NBC Red Network
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. It remained an NBC affiliate until NBC ceased hourly newscasts in the 1990s. KMJ then joined
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
. When CBS was acquired by the
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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(later be renamed
CBS Corporation
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), CBS Radio acquired KMJ from
American Radio Systems
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in 1998. It then began carrying CBS News at the beginning of most hours.
"Modern" studios were constructed as an addition to the
Fresno Bee Building
The Fresno Bee Building is an historic 5-story building located at Van Ness and Calaveras Street in downtown Fresno, California. It was built in 1922 by architect Leonard F. Starks to house the offices and printery for The Fresno Bee newspaper. on Van Ness Avenue. The studios were subsequently used by
Valley Public Radio, and later, McClatchy donated the entire building to the
Fresno Metropolitan Museum
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. The radio studio addition was demolished in 2007, as part of a renovation of the main building.
At the outset of World War II, the
Department of War selected KMJ as the primary medium for alerting
Central California
Central California is generally thought of as the middle third of the state, north of Southern California, which includes Los Angeles, and south of Northern California, which includes San Francisco. It includes the northern portion of the S ...
residents. It is still used for this purpose today as a primary entry point for the
Emergency Alert System
The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite, or broadcast television, and both ...
.
From 1925 until 1987, KMJ was owned by McClatchy, which also owned
KFBK in
Sacramento
)
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,
KBEE
KBEE (98.7 FM), branded as B98.7, is a commercial radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the oldest FM stations in the Western United States, tracing its history to 1947. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and it airs an adult c ...
in
Modesto
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,
KERN
KERN (1180 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Wasco, California, Wasco-Greenacres, California, and serving the Bakersfield metropolitan area. The station is owned by American General ...
in
Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's populat ...
, and
KKOH
KKOH (780 kHz, "News Talk 780 KOH") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Reno, Nevada. KKOH airs a talk radio format and is owned and operated by Cumulus Media. Studios and offices are on East Plumb Lane. It transmits from a three-tower ...
(formerly KOH) in
Reno
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. McClatchy Newspapers also owned three daily newspapers in Fresno, Sacramento, and Modesto.
FM and TV stations
In 1949, KMJ gained a
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
with KMJ-FM 97.9 MHz going on the air. At first, it
simulcast
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KMJ before switching to
classical music
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, and then flipped to an
automated
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Top 40
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format in the 1970s. (Currently, the station is
KMGV
KMGV is in the Fresno, California area and broadcasts at 97.9 FM. It is owned by Cumulus Media. Its studios are located at the Radio City building on Shaw Avenue in North Fresno and its transmitter is at Meadow Lakes in Sierra National Forest.
...
.) In 1953, a television station was added, KMJ-TV on Channel 24. Because KMJ Radio was a longtime NBC affiliate, Channel 24 carried NBC Television Network programming. The TV station was sold off in 1981 to become
KSEE
KSEE (channel 24) is a television station in Fresno, California, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CBS affiliate KGPE (channel 47). Both stations share studios on McKinley Avenue in eastern Fresn ...
.
In November 2006, KMJ and its sister stations
KFPT
KFPT (790 AM) is an American radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Clovis, California
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. The 2020 population was 120,124. Clovis is located northeast of downtown ...
,
KWYE
KWYE (101.1 FM, "Y101") is a radio station in the Fresno, California, area that airs a hot adult contemporary music format. The station is owned by Cumulus Media. Its studios are at the Radio City building on Shaw Avenue in North Fresno and it ...
,
KSKS
KSKS (93.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Fresno, California. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and it airs a country music radio format branded as "Kiss Country". Its studios are at the Radio City building on Shaw Avenue in No ...
,
KFJK,
KOQO and
KMGV
KMGV is in the Fresno, California area and broadcasts at 97.9 FM. It is owned by Cumulus Media. Its studios are located at the Radio City building on Shaw Avenue in North Fresno and its transmitter is at Meadow Lakes in Sierra National Forest.
...
were sold by CBS Radio to Peak Broadcasting for $90 million.
Adding KMJ-FM
In March 2009, as more listeners were tuning to FM radio, Peak Broadcasting decided to put KMJ on the FM band. It replaced the
Jack FM
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Format characteristics
Stations ...
format and KFJK call letters on 105.9 FM, with Talk programming as
KMJ-FM
KMJ-FM (105.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Fresno, California. The station, owned by Cumulus Media, airs a news/talk radio format, simulcast with sister station AM 580 KMJ. The studios and offices are located at the Radio City build ...
. At first, only some programs were shared by both KMJ-AM and FM; currently, all programming is simulcast on both stations.
In the fall of 2012,
Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Networks (formerly Premiere Radio Networks, shortened as PRN) is an American media company, a wholly owned subsidiary of iHeartMedia, for which it currently serves as its main original radio content distribution and production arm. I ...
, owned by
Clear Channel Radio
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, exercised a termination clause and ended its relationship with KMJ-AM-FM. As of January 1, 2013, all Premiere syndicated shows, including
Rush Limbaugh
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and
Sean Hannity
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American talk show host, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of '' The Sean Hannity Show'', a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also hosted a commen ...
, were moved to Clear Channel-controlled stations in the greater Fresno area. KMJ-AM-FM used the opportunity to go with an all live and local line-up of shows from 5 A.M. until 6 P.M., Monday through Friday.
Ownership changes
On August 30, 2013, a deal was announced in which
Townsquare Media
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would purchase Peak Broadcasting, and then immediately swap Peak's Fresno stations, including KMJ, to
Cumulus Media
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in exchange for Cumulus' stations in
Dubuque, Iowa
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, and
Poughkeepsie, New York
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. The deal was part of Cumulus' acquisition of
Dial Global
Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming.
The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The company ...
. Peak, Townsquare, and Dial Global are all controlled by
Oaktree Capital Management
Oaktree Capital Management is an American global asset management firm specializing in alternative investment strategies. As of March 31, 2022, the company managed $164 billion for its clientele.
The firm was co-founded in 1995 by a group that ...
.
The sale to Cumulus was completed on November 14, 2013.
Under Cumulus ownership, KMJ-AM-FM became affiliates of co-owned
Westwood One News
Westwood One News was a radio news network launched on January 1, 2015, and operated by Westwood One through its parent company Cumulus Media. Using audio from CNN reports and correspondents, and anchored by Cumulus employees, it provided radio ...
.
Transmitter
In 1936, the station constructed a 5,000-watt non-directional transmitter site which utilized a 5/8 wave antenna located 5 miles east of Fresno at the northeast corner of the Kings Canyon Road and Fowler Avenue intersection.
In 1941, Hammer Field (which later became Fresno Air Terminal) was constructed, as a training base for the Army Air Corps. The KMJ tower was directly in line with the runway, and the Army wanted the site relocated. The transmitter was then moved some 16 miles west of Fresno, to the intersection of Madera and North Avenues in
Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...
. The transmitter building was moved to the Kerman site, and the existing tower was unstacked and moved as well; however, it was only 660 feet in height. The remaining 330 feet were stored on the site, with the intention of creating a directional array, although
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
interrupted the project and it never resumed. The extra portion was eventually moved to
Sacramento
)
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, and used in the construction of the
KFBK transmitter site in 1945.
Later, a new directional array was built in
Orange Cove, California
Orange Cove is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was at the 2010 census, up from at the 2000 census.
Description
Almost all of Orange Cove's residents are Hispanic, many of them farmers. Orange Cove is locate ...
. However the station retained the single-tower Kerman site. As of 2019 it is not registered as an auxiliary transmit location, so the station must file for an STA if it wishes to transmit from the old tower. This most recently occurred in September 2013 when a
Special Temporary Authority
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(STA) was granted by the FCC that authorized KMJ to use the auxiliary site in Kerman at 5,000 watts, while one of its directional antennas at the 50,000 watt site in Orange Cove underwent repairs.
KMJ uses a 50,000 watt transmitter into a directional antenna consisting of 4 mast radiators situated at 36-39-37.2 N 119-20-52.8 W, 36-39-29.2 N 119-20-52.8 W, 36-39-27.9 N 119-20-48.3 W, 36-39-36.5 N 119-20-47.1 W; each of the towers is tall. Due to its location near the bottom of the AM dial, KMJ's daytime signal decently covers much of the Central Valley, as far north as
Sacramento
)
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and as far south as
Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's populat ...
. Much of the
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
gets a city-grade signal.
References
External links
KMJ Website
* (covering 1927-1980)
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Radio stations established in 1922
News and talk radio stations in the United States
MJ (AM)
Fresno State Bulldogs football
1922 establishments in California
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Radio stations licensed before 1923 and still broadcasting